2026 marks the 100th anniversary of Miles Davis and John Coltrane.

2026 marks the 100th anniversary of Miles Davis and John Coltrane.

To celebrate, we're bringing you a series of tribute videos; anecdotes, stories, key moments, records that changed everything.

We start with Kind of Blue.

Kind of Blue, the record that changed the rules

In 1959, Miles Davis went into the studio with a simple... and revolutionary idea: to do jazz differently. Less harmonic complexity, more space, more listening. He was surrounded by an exceptional band, including a young John Coltrane on the rise.

The result? Kind of Blue. An album recorded almost like a conversation, with no fixed scores, where each musician improvises using modes rather than traditional chord grids. It's a new kind of freedom that opens a huge door in the history of jazz: modal jazz.

From the very first notes of So What, something changes. Time seems suspended. The solos no longer seek to "prove", but to tell. And in this new space, the music breathes differently.

This record would become much more than a masterpiece: it would become an absolute reference, studied and replayed, and still considered today to be one of the most influential albums of all time.

Stay tuned...